Chapter 17: The Fog of Life
Time goes back to more than a month ago, in a private house in the capital.
Liu Zhiyuan pushed open the door with a tired face, he was wearing the uniform of the Fish Dragon Guard, and the Xiao Han knife was pinned to his waist, but he did not have the majestic appearance of most Fish Dragon Guards, but more like an old farmer. His wife came up to him, and while helping him take off his uniform, she said: "Lao Liu, a young man came to visit you today, saying that after saying that he was an old man, he wanted to ask you about something, I asked him to wait in the side hall, can you go and have a look?"
"After the deceased?" Liu Zhiyuan asked suspiciously, stretched out his hand to stop his wife from unloading the Xiaohan knife from under his waist, and walked towards the side hall with the knife. In the side hall, a young man saw Liu Zhiyuan coming, and hurriedly got up and made a gesture, and said, "Hello senior, the junior is named Ah Jue." ”
Liu Zhiyuan looked at Ah Jue, sat on the chair suspiciously, held the Xiao Han knife in one hand, and asked, "Who are you after you said you were my deceased?"
Ah Jue smiled: "Senior, I'm sorry, actually, I don't know who I am." Don't be nervous, I have no ill intentions. Here's the thing.,The younger generation was an orphan.,Now looking for his biological parents.,I think my life experience should be related to the Ichthyosaurus.,The seniors are the oldest old people in the Ichthyosaurus.,So the younger generations think.,The seniors should be able to know something.。 ”
"Oh?" Liu Zhiyuan still frowned and said, "Then you can take a look." ”
"Senior, take a look at this first. Ah Jue took out a copper coin without a square hole from his bosom and handed it to the table in front of Liu Zhiyuan. Liu Zhiyuan stretched out a hand to pick up the copper coin and looked at it for a while, and said: "This copper coin is indeed the symbol of the Ichthyosaurus, and the details of the knife skills and the image of the Ichthyosaurus cannot be faked, and it is indeed a product of the Ichthyosaurus." ”
Ah Jue's eyes lit up and he asked, "So senior, do you know who this is, or rather, what kind of person would have such a thing?"
Liu Zhiyuan's eyes narrowed, put the copper coin back on the table, and said: "I don't know who you are, I don't know where you came from, why do I believe you? If you want to rely on this thing to seek revenge? Tell you, didn't I hurt my own brother!"
"The senior's worries are correct, and he is worthy of being an old man in the fish dragon guard. Ah Jue praised with a smile, then sat down opposite Liu Zhiyuan, and continued: "Of course, the juniors also believe that the seniors will definitely tell what they know. After speaking, he took out another stack of notebooks from his arms and put them in front of Liu Zhiyuan.
Liu Zhiyuan glanced at Ah Jue suspiciously, picked up the notebook and flipped through it. As the pages of the paper went down, Liu Zhiyuan's face turned from shock to anger, then from anger to fear, and then to bloodless paleness, and the two hands that were already old trembled even more. He threw the notebook to the ground with a "snap", pointed at Ah Jue angrily, and shouted: "You get out of here!"
"Hehe, senior, don't be angry. The corners of Ah Jie's mouth were slightly raised, he bent down, picked up the book again, patted the dust on it, and put it on the table in front of him again, and said: "The predecessors should be able to see that this account book is only a part, and in my hand, there are three copies of the same account book." In fact, the younger generation is also very curious, the senior must have been in the Yulongwei for more than 20 years, right? Why is it still just a small general banner? It turns out that the senior gave most of the family wealth to the boss, just to be able to stay in the position of the general banner. Then it's very strange, why don't you go up to 100 or 1,000 households? Is it because you can reap the benefits? Or is it because you ...... What about greed for life and fear of death?"
Liu Zhiyuan glared at Ah Jue, his outstretched hand trembled more and more, and his teeth made a "gurgling" sound, as if he wanted to eat Ah Jue with his belt bones.
Ah Jue said, suddenly raised his head, glared back at Liu Zhiyuan viciously, a cruel smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and said: "Senior Liu, your story, I Ah Jue is not interested at all, you have raised a few lovers, how many illegitimate children, how much gold is hidden in your yard, or accidentally killed the children of a large family, I Ah Jue can also not know all of them." Those ledgers are just a matter of fire. For the seniors, it is easier to do, just tell me about this copper coin in detail. Don't think about lying, or hiding from me, if the juniors find out something wrong later, it's the seniors who are unlucky. ”
The Xiaohan knife on Liu Zhiyuan's waist made a "clang" sound, and it was half unsheathed. But he looked at Ah Jue's evil smile in front of him, but he couldn't pull out the knife, and his whole person kept trembling.
"That's right. Ah Jue leaned back comfortably in the chair, stilted his legs, stretched out his little fingers and gouged his ears, and said with a smile: "Then Senior Liu, let's say, what do you know?"
Liu Zhiyuan lowered his hand and pressed the Xiaohan knife back. And he, Liu Zhiyuan, guarded the capital, and when he was young, he specialized in investigating the affairs of officials, and he had nothing to do to hand over a small note and small information to the emperor, and there were hundreds of people who offended? Not to mention that now the fish and dragon guards are no longer monolithic, and more than a dozen thousand households are secretly fighting to the death, and these small fish and shrimp under their hands are eager to pick each other up to the end. It's just a few words, and it's all right after that......
Ah Jue was not in a hurry, just sat like that, digging his ears and watching Liu Zhiyuan bow his head and think. After a while, Liu Zhiyuan slowly raised his head and said in a hoarse and dry voice: "There is no such copper coin in the Fish Dragon Guard. However, many, many years ago, I saw a copper coin similar to it...... Soon after the establishment of the Fish Dragon Guard that year, the commander personally recruited troops at the entrance of the imperial city, and when I went to enlist, I saw the commander playing with such a copper coin without holes in his hand...... It also slipped under my feet, and I picked it up and gave it to the commander, who noticed me and told me to take the exam first, and then I entered the Fish Dragon Guard. ”
"Then I'm asking the right person. Ah Jue laughed, very happy, jumped on the chair and squatted, supporting his knees very unvividly, the person leaned forward and approached Liu Zhiyuan: "So senior, the copper coin that brought you good luck at the beginning, does it look the same as mine?"
Liu Zhiyuan turned his face away, dodged the approaching Ah Jue, and said, "It's been too long, I can't remember it clearly." I only remember that on the copper coin at that time, the word 'Li' was written, which should be the surname of the commander......"
"Good. Ah Jue smiled and said: "Then think about it again, more than 20 years ago, there was a senior official surnamed Fu in your Yulongwei?"
"No!" Liu Zhiyuan replied very quickly this time: "In the Yulong Guard back then, the commander was Li Jingzhen Li, and the commander was two Tongzhi, one surnamed Zuo and the other surnamed Zheng; the commander was two servants, one surnamed Qiu and the other surnamed Wang; and two pacification envoys, both of whom were surnamed Fu. And in the past 20 years, I have never had a high-ranking official surnamed Fu among my fish and dragon guards!"
Ah Jue pursed his lips, not showing a look of surprise. He sat back in his chair and tapped his fingers regularly on the tabletop. Liu Zhiyuan half-lowered his head and looked tentatively at Ah Jue's expression. After a while, Ah Jue asked again: "Senior, think about it again, is there such a ...... in the Fish Dragon Guard?" It is...... It's mysterious, it's powerful, it feels like a forbidden kind of character?"
"Uh...... What are you talking about?"
"Nothing, nothing, I'll talk about it casually. ”
Liu Zhiyuan sighed and said, "That's all I know, I can swear to God that I didn't lie to you." If you want to know more about this copper coin, you can only ask the Commander. However, if you dare to go, the commander will be able to beat you to pulp in an instant. ”
"I believe that. Ah Jue kept a smile, took the copper coin on the table to himself, scratched his head, and prepared to turn away. Suddenly, he stopped again, as if he had thought of something, turned around and walked back to Liu Zhiyuan's side quickly. Liu Zhiyuan was frightened and sat up straight, which had gradually relaxed. Seeing this scene, the smile on Ah Jue's face became even gentler. He patted Liu Zhiyuan on the shoulder and said, "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, I just remembered that there was a question that I didn't ask." Senior, tell me, where can I find all the archival documents when the Ichthyosaurus was first established?"
Beside the fire, Ning Wushu held his cheeks and listened to Ah Jue tell this story with his hands dancing, and then asked, "Then what about later, did you find the files related to your life experience?"
"Well...... That's why I'm here. Ah Jue fiddled with dry firewood and said: "Later, I investigated a few fish and dragon guards who were in charge of the files, that is, those routines, threats, scares, scares, etc., and asked them to help me get into the place where the files were managed, and I searched for most of the night before I finally found a clue." ”
"You also know that I have been in charge of the Tibetan Pavilion for so many years, and I am very sensitive to what archives and catalogs and the like. I checked the directory of all the archives of the Ichthyosaurus Guard not long after its establishment, and found a problem, that is, there are actually two documents that record the identity and origin of all the Ichthyosaurus, and the time marked is a few days different, and there is no difference between the writer and the seal. I searched through the catalogue and found something even stranger, on that shelf, there was indeed a booklet that recorded the identities of all the fish dragon guards back then, and next to it, it was also marked that there should be a booklet like this, but it was empty, and there was nothing. I asked the Ichthyoke who had taken me in, and he said that it had always been like this, and he suspected that the person in charge of the records had made a mistake, but I didn't believe it, and it was probably my background hidden behind this empty shelf. ”
"Narcissists have said that when doing things, you can't be afraid of trouble. It took me a few more days to find the person who was in charge of recording and organizing this part of the file, and it was already an old man, although I couldn't bear it, but I still used a little trick to 'remember' him what happened. It turned out that after he finished writing the first booklet and filing it, Li Jingzhen found him, told him that there was a problem, asked him to delete some names, make a new copy and put it in, and take out the old one, which is what I saw. ”
What's even more interesting is that Li Jingzhen didn't let him destroy the booklet, but = put it in a box, let the old man keep it, and locked it under his bed all the time, so that it was more than 20 years. It wasn't until a few months ago that the box was lost when his house was burglarized. Then, Li Jingzhen began to chase and kill your father Ning Liang overwhelmingly, I think about it with my heels, I know that this thing must have been taken away by your father. After chasing here, I found that the fish and dragon guards were all looking for something they didn't know what it was, and I estimated that it was the brochure I was looking for. Your father is also very powerful, he has been an official in Hangning for so many years, and it has only been a long time since he arrived in the capital, and he can do so many things, you are really worthy of being a father and daughter. ”
"Huh?" Ning Wushu rubbed his temples and said, "Is it still my father because of your life experience?" Good guy, Yulongwei is looking for it, Leng Qianqiu is looking for it, and now even you are looking for it, do you want to kill you for my father?"
"Hehe, you have to think about this from the root!" Ah Du said, shaking his fingers, " You think, at present, your father took this thing in order to increase his political capital; Yulongwei wants to snatch it back, most of it is because of Li Jingzhen's own reasons, I am afraid that there are things in it that he does not see; Leng Qianqiu grabbed it, I don't know why, the biggest possibility is also to find trouble with Li Jingzhen, if he gets this thing, it should be able to make the biggest waves; and I want to look for it, just to be able to take a look, to know if there was a Yulongwei surnamed Fu back then, and what it has to do with me, that's all. You see, you don't have to kill me when you think about it, do you?"
Ning Wushu pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "Don't you want to fool around, in case your background is found out and you are an authentic fish dragon guard, what should you do?"
"Then you can look at the situation and decide if you want to kill me. Ah Du said seriously: "However, the main problem we are facing now is what to do next. There is Leng Qianqiu chasing behind, if you want to find the booklet, there are still fish and dragon guards staring, we are now embattled. ”
"This is easy to solve, I have a solution. Ning Wushu stood up and showed a hint of a smile.